Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 145

One week ago, I went to a branch office of Servicio de Administración Tributaria, the government office in charge of processing taxes. This year, I plan on doing something quite bold, as my Mexican friends will acknowledge: I will prepare my (quite simple, I hope) tax declaration by myself. I do not want to be held hostage of the accountant guild - So I might end doing some fuckup which in the end costs me money or time. I hope it is not the case. Anyway… Last week I went to this office, as I needed either a CIECF (Clave...

It seems everybody is ranting in Planet Debian about what our planet should be about, what content should be acceptable, whether technical-only, Debian-only, everything-goes… Even archiving the posts via a mailing-list interface has been mentioned. Besides, following the planet seems to have become mandatory to people linked to Debian, almost as mandatory as following debian-devel-announce. I won’t bother linking to other posts in this topic, as they are far too many. The whole discussion seems childlike and sterile to me. For different people, Debian means different things - This topic has come up in the planet a couple of times...

Wouter, you seem to enjoy using huge filesystem volumes. So, dear lazyweb… I have a 500GB disk for my users’ home partitions - they mainly use it to back up their desktop data, but I do expect them to give it more usage. Anyway - I am currently using around 350GB of it, leaving the rest still unpartitioned. I have switched over to ReiserFS, as online resizing it is way faster than online resizing ext3 - it’s basically instantaneous. It seems I do belong to the old sysadmin school, and I value highly the reliability that comes from not having...

This is the third plugin I have been working on for Rails - It’s the one that still needs most work to be fully usable (for what I originally envisioned it), but is almost there - I have not touched it (nor the other two I recently presented here, acts_as_catalog and Real FK because real-life has demanded my time on various other fronts. Anyway, this is IMHO the most interesting of the three plugins I’ve written so far. So, following what I did with the other plugins: You can go to acts_as_magic_model’s main page, or jump straight to its SVN...

Vicm3, you know I’d probably ignore this, as following internet memes goes against my principles. But what are the principles there, if not to break them? Ok, so what you request is, basically, to get a list of sounds to build my life’s soundtrack. Following the list you mentioned, it is quite exhaustive, creative and long. In my case, some other time, I’d probably jump over some über-sarcastic Leo Masliah and the like. Particularly, I would not ever talk about my life without his Todo así. But not today. Today, I’d love my life’s movie to be an old-fashioned, mute...

Of course, this post is about the results for the recent Debian Project Leader elections. Although I’ve written quite a bit about politics in my country, I cannot sadly hold any hopes for decent electoral (or post-electoral, or political in general) results here in Banana-land. All hail our de-facto president, BTW. Anyway, on to happier realms. The DPL elections are over. Voter turnout was low, as Manoj pointed out, but it’s not as low as I feared. And, /methinks, not only because of the shortened period - but because this was generally an easy-going election, with three quite good candidates....

As stated yesterday, I have recently worked on some plugins for Ruby on Rails, and I do think they are usable (and useful!) for audiences larger than myself. So, today I’ll present here the second such plugin. acts_as_catalog implements a really simple but really common pattern - Catalog-tables (or should I say catalog-models?) Granted, the amount of code this plugin saves is not very large, but it does add maintainability for our code-base, and includes basic unit tests. Of course, you can also taka a look at its SVN repo. Models A catalog is defined as a table with only...

I have mostly shifted my main development language to Ruby, as most of the work I do tends to be pretty well covered with Rails. That’s not new, however - What is new is that I feel I have got to the point where I actually have something to share. And it feels very good. So my next couple of posts (three, actually) will be covering some plugins I’ve written. They are, of course, just sketched - but they work reliably enough to be deemed as useful by their author ;-) Today I will start by blogging about RealFK. Of...

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Some readers might not now that Debian is in this annual process where we vote for our Leader for the following next year. I just submitted my vote. I think it is worth mention that this year there is very little discussion on this subject among DDs. Also, I’ve practically seen nobody publicly posting their votes or preferences, as it is usual (well, usually we get maybe 10 votes posted to the planet or the different lists). It must be related to the fact that this year we have neither a candidate or quasi-candidate who raises passions for or against...